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Sanyangeui Sigan (2020)

Crime | 134 minutes
2,76 54 votes

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Duration: 134 minuten

Alternative titles: The Night of the Hunter / Time to Hunt / Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan / 사냥의 시간

Country: South Korea

Directed by: Sung-hyun Yoon

Starst: Lee Jehoon, Jae-hong Ahn and Choi Woo-sik

IMDb score: 6,3 (7.618)

Releasedate: 22 February 2020

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Sanyangeui Sigan plot

When Jun-seok is picked up by his buddies Ki-hoon and Jang-ho after three years in prison, it takes a while before he understands how much South Korea has changed after the recent financial crisis. Jun-seok has a dream that he wants to realize: he wants to go to Hawaii with his friends, to start a new life there. But Jun-seok has no money, and that's a problem.

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tbouwh

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Not to be missed at the last minute of 2020, this Korean slowburner that ran in Berlin in the specials section and then landed right on Netflix. We see an extremely stark portrayal of Korea, in which the national currency has gone through the ceiling and cash can be called a prop of the near past. The streets breathe lawlessness, ''living'' is a tough task. In the midst of it all, we follow a group of young adults as they try to carry out a desperate robbery plan. While they - oh, the irony - go head-to-head with the men behind the curtain at a local gambling den, who fear their money laundering will be exposed.

Time to Hunt is immeasurably atmospheric, with a rich color palette and (at the same time) a great emphasis on the gray cityscape. The stuffy soundtrack generates tension and propels the film experience - at 2 hours and 15 minutes you can easily lose your way, if you're good at it. All the more a shame that the film, especially in the stretched final phase, relies too much on the poorly written and somewhat generic screenplay. The opening made more promise.

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sinterklaas

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Nice Korean crime movie again. The 135 minutes passed in no time, despite the fact that when scrolling on Netflix I always dread those very long films.

The setting is a South Korean city in a not-so-distant future. Capitalism has turned into an economic crisis and the streets are ruled by poverty, anarchy and chaos. Some continue to dream despite the crisis; so is the Jun-Seok. He has spent three years in prison and seems completely committed to a better but stereotypical life on a tropical island. The idea is standard; he rounds up his two friends, first go partying and then they plan a robbery at an illegal gambling house. Not a penny of pain, because the police will not be called quickly in this matter and there are dollars to collect.

The robbery seems successful and they make off with the loot in the nick of time, taking a hellish road trip through South Korea in search of the right destination. However, they do not seem to be completely out of the spotlight and a mysterious secret agent aka hitman has set their sights on them. Someone who, however, finds the money a lot less important.

Time to Hunt was a nice raw, exciting and successful action thriller with compelling dystopian settings. Something different from the chaotic streets of contemporary Seoul. It gave the film something special and it was a message at the same time. Also typical is the crazyness of the characters in which the film gets a humorous twist.

I say successful.

4.0*

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UmbraVitae

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I already have quite a few South Korean films, mostly in the crime-action-thriller-drama-horror genre. Precisely because of that typical South Korean approach, which is much less slick than what the majority of the American and British film world delivers. I'm definitely a huge fan of the South Korean approach, that raw, (hard) hard, uncompromising approach, think of an 'Oldeuboi (2003)', 'Dalkomhan Insaeng (2005)' and especially 'Ang-ma-reul Bo- at-da (2010)'. Also in the horror genre, they often manage to deliver captivating, mysterious, dark, sometimes shocking films, such as 'Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)' and 'Gok-seong (2016)', they even take a zombie film to another level, such as 'Busanhaeng (2016)'.

Those are big 8s, 9 and 10/10 films for me.

This one doesn't reach such a high level anywhere and indd as already described here, it doesn't really feel completely South Korean, maybe because the director Sung-hyun Yoon was born in Oakland It's certainly not bad and good to watch and that says enough if I normally applaud that cinema from all sides. Netflix will certainly have a lot to do with this.

A 6.

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